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Rudolph Von Abele

Nonfiction

Spring 1953

Baby and Butterfly

By Rudolph Von Abele

The climactic scene of Hawthorne’s “The Artist of the Beautiful” is of course the last, in which Owen Warland, after much disappointment and solitary labor, brings his mechanical butterfly as […]

Poetry

Winter 1949

The Idealists

By Rudolph Von Abele

They sat then where they were upon a bench in disrepairin the green park under the sad large sky, while day went comfortably down the trimmed long mall:and where they […]